I was starting to think about packing last year......sigh......oh...I so so so love Paris......I am so happy for you! I think oct. And nov. Are my favorite months...I don't care for the heat and even in oct. You can have some very warm days... I just love to walk and walk and last year we rented bicycles..that was the best...we rode all over Paris.....enjoy every second!

I enjoyed trying to sketch that fabulous Medici Fountain on a perfect October day way too many years ago---7 years I think!Try it! Believe me--no one will pay you any mind and if they do it will be to compliment your skill!Oooh la la!

Get out there and do those Value Studies, Carol. You know very well how good for you the whole process is! I meet so many fascinating (wannabe) fellow humans when sketching, wherever in the world. And one correction: Actually if you were the world's WORST Procrastinator, then you'd barely be procrastinating. Like me, you're probably one of the really good ones!

Your post tonight brought back a memorie back to me, it was the chrome teapot with the ceramic pot inside.If my mum had visitors that teapot came out and the milk and sugarbowl to match.They go for a lot of money now, saw one in a antique show last weekand it sold for £150 and yours looked better. Even a small thing like this does stir up different things up inside you,Jill

I'm a brand new reader of your blog :) I think I came to your blog once before when trying to find the opening date of Laduree NY. Several weeks later, I went to get a haircut and saw the Laduree opening news in vogue and really liked the illustration next to the text. I even thought about finding this back issue to cut that out for keepsake. Luckily, I stumbled upon one blog that led me back to your blog...what a long way but I finally got here. Just wanted to say I enjoy reading your blog :)

Wonderful!I like the painting above the "Basically this is a 'nudge' post" very much. Venice is full of artists drawing in the squares, on the bridges, in the calle. Here in Vienna, I often observe artists drawing and painting in the entrance hall to the Museum of Art History, of all places (a magnificent place).

And here's the thing about working outside, Carol. Anyone who pays you any mind is likely to be someone such as myself - without an artistic bone in their body - and therefore in total admiration of your skill. So please, go for it!!

I just re-read this post and completely missed the part about you buying your ticket for Paris! Exciting, Carol. I love reading your posts from abroad. Paris in October is...magical, memorable, sigh...

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Hi I'm Carol Gillott,
My Mom taught me watercolors at 5 and I'm still at it. Now I live by the Seine on l'Ile Saint-Louis. Do consider subscribing to my Paris letters and maps on Etsy and enjoy a taste of Paris in your mailbox every month to savor with a hot chocolate and croissant. I paint Paris dreams.